The health damage caused by air pollution in “To put this into perspective, this means that air pollution causes more extra deaths a year than tobacco smoking,” said Prof Thomas Münzel at the University Medical Centre Mainz in Germany and one of the scientists behind the new study.
It calculated a much higher number of premature deaths because better data on the wide impacts of air pollution is now available.There was previously little data about the effect of high levels of air pollution and results from second-hand smoking studies were used instead, leading to an underestimate of deaths. Consequently, the importance of reducing air pollution deaths might occupy a greater role in policy debates that are centered on climate change. Research also now covers a wider range of health impacts, including diabetes and high blood pressure, which also increases the estimated number of deaths.The estimates of early deaths varied significantly between countries. That study, The NBER study found that “the switch from nuclear power to fossil fuel-fired production resulted in substantial increases in global and local air pollution emissions.” A key reason for the increased air pollution was that “lost nuclear production was replaced by electricity production from coal- and gas-fired sources in Germany as well as electricity imports from surrounding countries.”The study concluded that “the phase-out resulted in more than 1,100 additional deaths per year” due to excess mortality from the consequences of increased air pollution. So 4.6 million people die from fossil fuels a year.The death toll reported by Greenpeace, which has been criticised for being too high, since Chernobyl places the total deaths at around 200,000 in Ukrane, Belarus and Russia. That doesn't even go near how much damage a CT scan does to the human body, and you can have several of those a year without even having an insignificant (yes insignificant) chance of cancer.Oh, before I forget. The United States ranks third, with almost 200,000 deaths in 2015. The new work also only considered PM2.5 and ozone, and not other particles, nitrogen dioxide or other pollutants.Authorities in Indian capital rate conditions as ‘severe to emergency’Analysis finds toxic air trims lifespans by 1.8 years, making it main threat to human healthNorwegian company to use leftovers from fish processing to make biogas to fuel linersShipping is estimated to account for 10% of city’s air pollution, and campaigners are targeting cruise industry in particular Fears of health crisis as Delhi suffers worst air pollution this yearAir pollution cuts two years off global average lifespan, says study'I don’t want ships to kill me': Marseille fights cruise liner pollutionIndonesia: dead whale had 1,000 pieces of plastic in stomachInsectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdownDelhi covered in toxic haze after night of Diwali fireworks Such organisms and their resulting fossil fuels typically have an age of millions of years, and sometimes more than 650 million years. The World Health Organisation figures put the death toll at 3 million people a year for air pollution due to vehicles, power plants and industry. (Photo by Mehedi Hasan/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Researchers say dirty air is killing 800,000 people a year in Europe, and urge the phasing out of fossil fuel burningThe number of early deaths caused by air pollution is double previous estimates, according to research, meaning toxic air is killing more people than tobacco smoking.The scientists used new data to estimate that nearly 800,000 people die prematurely each year in Europe because of dirty air, and that each life is cut short by an average of more than two years. Fossil fuels kill 20,000 people a year in the US, that's a well established fact. As a result, Governments around the world are now engaged in efforts to ramp down greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels to prevent the worst effects of climate change.
Climate change is not the only consequence of the burning of fossil fuels.
Fossil fuel production and consumption began with coal - its first reported uses date as far back as 4000BC in China where carving took place out of black lignite (one of the several forms of coal).1. Between now and 2024, wind turbine technician is projected to be the single fastest-growing job in the country by a wide margin.